[rescue] Fun new virus out there - subject line of "Hi!"

[Ken Hansen]

Nope - I'll pass your tip/trick on to our admins...

Thanks!

Ken

--- Phil Schilling <phils at gcstech.net> wrote:
> Ken Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > Wha?
> > 
> > Preview pane is *nearly* safe, or, for "The
> Princess Bride" fans, it is
> > "only Mostly Safe"
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> <snip>
> Ken,
> 	The preview pane does open the email.  It has to
> open it to show you
> what is inside.  Malicious code may be passed
> without the opening of an
> attachment.  There was a virus in the last year or
> so that would use the
> win*.dat extensions that outlook and outlook express
> use to run the code
> without your needing to open an attachment.  I have
> to deal with windows
> desktops everyday and the one of the first things we
> do is shut off the
> preview pane and then change the default?? (whatever
> the fsck m$ calls
> it) file properties to open .vbs .scr .exe and the
> like with the notepad
> application.  You can get infected on a windows
> machine by using the
> preview pane. Hopefully you are running outlook* on
> something besides
> windoze and it is all moot point 8-)
> 
> Phil
> 
> -- 
> Phil Schilling
> GCS Tech
> phils at gcstech.net
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=====
Ken
n2vip at yahoo.com

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